Khamira

Khamira is a new Indo-Welsh World Music band fusing elements of Welsh folk, Indian Classical, jazz and rock.

Four musicians from Wales premiere jazz/folk band Burum, join forces with three of India's genre-breaking musicians to create Khamira.

Suhail Yusuf Khan's virtuosic Sarangi and vocals dovetails with Tomos Williams' trumpet, Vishal Nagar's tabla adds dynamic rhythms to Mark O'Connor's drumming, while Aditya Balani's soaring guitar solos are supported by Dave Jones' keyboard and Aidan Thorne's bass. Think Miles Davis 1970s grunge-funk crossed with the Pat Metheny group, inter-twinned with passages of melancholic Welsh folk and Indian classical virtuosity.

Having toured and headlined major festivals in India in 2015, Khamira have received funding from the British Council and Wales Arts International India/Wales 2017 fund to tour Wales for the first time.